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[from amaah] 'Craft guns' fuel West Africa crime epidemic
the weapons were traditionally produced for hunting and for farmers to protect livestock but criminal gangs and tribal conflicts have revolutionised demand. Alarmist headline notwithstanding locally-manufactured guns are problematic
[from amaah] $2.5 million couldn't keep Anaheim gang member from his old friends
To kids like him, identity and belonging are powerful forces that keep them in gangs. There has to be an inside-out transformation or a life-changing event to bring change. Gangs compete with your family for loyalty.
[from amaah] Blacker-than-black Market
Still life about the black market in the tri-border region, Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina where everything that can be sold is indeed sold. Smuggler's haven as in the novels of Graham Greene where grifters proliferate
Free Our Data: the blog " Blog Archive " Why the police are against crime mapping - and what it tells us
"But the idea that the police are smarter about crime and criminal patterns than all of the population who might be looking at a crime map is, frankly, insulting." I respectfully disagree
[from amaah] Up from the Cellar
pondering Josef Fritzl and his crimes by way of a review of Elfriede Jelinek's works. "The performance takes place in the very much smaller cellar dungeon in Amstetten – daily, nightly."
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[from amaah] Route of Evil
Hyperbole for sure but founded on the rise of Guinea-Bissau as a major staging point for the drug trade from Columbia and Venezuela to Europe. The effects are what one can expect: a hollowed state, narco-corruption, addicts
[from amaah] The master of the murder castle: A classic of Chicago crime
Magnificent swindler, petty cheat, mass murderer, he was a man of nimble, tortuous mind. He pyramided fraud upon fraud. Young, good-looking, glib, he mesmerized business men and captivated and seduced pretty young women, at least two of whom he married bi
[from amaah] Flames of hate
The South African violence against foreigners is horrific enough without even being confronted by the images. Mobs are an awful thing. Still I dare not look away.
[from amaah] Thousands killed by US's Korean ally
Cold war skeletons... a cold-blooded slaughter from early in the Korean War, when this nation's U.S.-backed regime killed untold thousands of leftists and hapless peasants in a summer of terror in 1950. 100,000 people were executed.
[from amaah] The guilty vicarage: Notes on the detective story, by an addict, By W.H. Auden
The interest in the thriller is the ethical and eristic conflict between good and evil, between Us and Them. The interest in the study of a murderer is the observation, by the innocent many, of the sufferings of the guilty one. the dialectic of innocence
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[from amaah] U.N. Loses Patience With Somali Custom of Kidnapping
old article on that peculiarly Somali tradition that perhaps best underlies the anarchy we have seen for the past few decades and fits the stereotypes, untrustworthy, fickle, clannish, capricious and chewing khat with slights and the profit motive
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